Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party is seeking to outlaw five opposition parties. It’s a move that would remove competitors ahead of the 2028 parliamentary elections and further reduce freedom in a once exemplary democracy. The Constitutional Court, filled with Georgian Dream loyalists, began hearing the case in October. The lawsuit targets the parties: United National […]
The political equivalent of an asteroid strike hit the Grand Old Party on Tuesday night. A blue wave tore through traditionally red strongholds, flipping the governorships in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, and other red-leaning states, and handing Democrats control of both houses of Congress with significant majorities. The Republican Party was handed an unmistakable, undeniable mandate […]
PITTSBURGH — The photographs hang near the front of the building, and John Thornton walks visitors past them the way some fathers show off old Little League pictures. Here is a rover he and his colleagues built some 15 years ago. Here is a larger rover photographed at night on a western Pennsylvania slag heap, […]
IN THE GOP, A NEW 2028 RACE. Midterm elections are traditionally seen as the start of the next presidential contest. But this year, the Democratic wave might be seen as the end of one 2028 race and the beginning of another. The sheer size of the Republican defeat left party supporters going through a heavily […]
It wasn’t a blue wave. It wasn’t even merely an indigo tsunami from voters appalled by corrupt candidates (see: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton), anti-Semites and racists (see: Georgia Rep. Mike Collins and Bo French), nepo babies (see: Sen. Darline Graham), credibly accused abusers (see: Rep. Max Miller), grifters, and charlatans (see: in many cases, […]
Tuesday handed Congress to the other party and started a clock. The administration has two years to leave something behind, with a House and Senate that owe it nothing. Laws get repealed. Rules get rewritten. But a yard with steel in the ground stays, and its payroll stays, whoever takes the oath in 2029. A […]
Those banking on a loss for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last week’s elections were sorely mistaken. Although neither his bloc nor the opposition has a straightforward path to forming the next government, it is astonishing that Netanyahu’s political fortunes endure at all. Consider the headwinds he faced in this election. On Oct. 7, […]
Consider a veteran who comes home from his last tour to his family in the mountains of West Virginia. He finds solace in the slowness and solitude of the land he has worked so hard to call his own. He spends time with his family and starts the transition to the slower pace of life, […]
The voters have spoken, and a new Democratic majority is headed to Washington. No matter what side of the aisle you support, American families and job creators, the consequences could extend well beyond politics. Hard-won efforts to rein in the IRS are now at risk of being reversed, potentially opening the door to renewed political […]
Texas’s Republican establishment thought it was unshakeable. The blue tsunami that recently swept across the state proved the opposite. The wave culminated with Republicans washed out on the floor of the Capitol, having lost both the governorship and a Senate seat. For Texas Democrats, the ask was plain: Don’t boo, vote. They listened. Pundits did […]
When Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States under the 1898 Treaty of Paris, Washington exploited Article IX of the agreement — breaking a historic precedent by omitting the collective naturalization guarantees that had accompanied every prior U.S. acquisition from Louisiana through Alaska. This calculated exclusion instantly manufactured a tier of second-class American nationals, […]
President Donald Trump has been compelled to confront a political reality that has humbled presidents before him: “All politics is local.” Regardless of a president’s accomplishments or ambitions, the American electorate ultimately judges its leaders by the consequences felt in their homes, communities, and pocketbooks. Whatever successes Trump may claim, his inability to bring the […]
First, congratulations, Democrats. You won convincingly, and your victory can reasonably be described as a blue wave. However, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, there is a quote by Winston Churchill that seems apropos in this moment: “In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.” Second, I sometimes think […]
